Prologue

Once upon a time, there was a king who fell in love with a Faery. He gave her his heart and she gave him her immortality. Together they built a kingdom—of stone and magic and legend—and they lived happily there.

But their happiness did not last forever. Nothing does, after all.

In the shadows I watched and waited.

The Faery’s heart slipped away to another.

The king’s kingdom burned.